Tribune News Service Amritsar May 7 Fatalities continue to remain alarming as 22 people succumbed to the virus on Friday which took the toll to 1057. The health authorities reported 502 fresh cases in the district today. With this the total count of positive cases increased to 36102. The new cases include 371 influenza-like illness (ILI) cases and 131 contacts of positive patients. The health authorities reported 420 recoveries. As a result recovered patients reached 29526. At present the district has a total of 5497 active cases. The health authorities informed that 4450 persons were inoculated today and a total of 312498 persons have been vaccinated to date. Residents who lost battle to Covid-19 include Pichora Singh (55) of Baba Bakala Sunil Kundra (75) Chowk Chabutra Vinod Shrivastava (30) Gate Khajana Gurcharan Singh (75) of Shakti Nagar Madan Lal (74) of Gurbax Nagar Kanta (74) of Namak Mandi Sunil Kumar (44) of Indira colony Jai Lal (72) of Katra Charat Singh Samyakta Devi (62) of Chehratta Ravi Kumar (51) of Guru Nanak Pura Narinder Singh (70) of Sultanwind road Surinder Singh (68) of New Gurnaam Nagar Balwinder Kaur (47) of Chehratta Rohit Kapoor (52) of Rishi Vihar Balwinder Kaur (50) Darshan Avenue Krishna Devi (75) of Chowk Prag Dass Mohan Singh (87) of Green Avenue Gurwinder Singh (65) of Mall Mandi Azad Singh (51) of Majitha road Kashmir Kaur (68) Parveen Mehra (60) of Basant avenue and Puneet Malhotra (47) of Kamla Devi avenue. Meanwhile with the death of 40-year-old Varinder Kaur of Tarn Taran on Friday the death toll in the district reached 233. Also 76 more Covid-positive cases reported in the district pushed the number of active cases to 652.

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